3. The Holiday
So on the off chance that you house-swapped for a quaint little cottage in the English countryside during winter, settled down to go to bed, and are interrupted by a drunk Jude Law looking dapper as usual, go ahead and start a relationship with him. In fact, go over to his house and meet his kids, have some quality family time. Then make everybody really sad when you leave. Maybe even shed your first tear in a decade. Let this tear convince you that you should post-pone your flight until New Year's and then go running back into dream-boat's arms. This
may convince him and his kids that you'll be sticking around forever, and that you
haven't simply postponed your inevitable departure. If you're lucky, when you do finally leave, they won't hate you forever for the false hope you created, and your man's kids will go on living happily motherless. But probably not.